UNDERRATED: 'How to Survive a Plague'

Donna Binder / Sundance Selects

This may prove to be the "everyone loses to 'Searching for Sugar Man'" category, but credit the filmmakers behind this documentary, which explores the remarkable combination of effort and activism during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Not only are the individual stories inspiring and sometimes achingly tragic, the film is a reminder that while today we have the viral movement "it gets better," not that long ago things were much worse.

This may prove to be the "everyone loses to 'Searching for Sugar Man'" category, but credit the filmmakers behind this documentary, which explores the remarkable combination of effort and activism during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Not only are the individual stories inspiring and sometimes achingly tragic, the film is a reminder that while today we have the viral movement "it gets better," not that long ago things were much worse. (Donna Binder / Sundance Selects)

This may prove to be the "everyone loses to 'Searching for Sugar Man'" category, but credit the filmmakers behind this documentary, which explores the remarkable combination of effort and activism during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Not only are the individual stories inspiring and sometimes achingly tragic, the film is a reminder that while today we have the viral movement "it gets better," not that long ago things were much worse.